Senior Lecturer in PhilosophyBA (SUNY Stony Brook), PhD (ANU) Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, Director of MA Programme in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics Office: Room 113, Arts Building Office Hours: Monday 11:30am-1pm (or by appointment) Phone: 0121 41 46055 |
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Yujin Nagasawa was educated as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the United States, and received his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2004. From 2004 to 2005 he was an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, Canada and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at ANU. He came to Birmingham in 2006 to take up a permanent position. He was awarded the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007 and the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise by the John Templeton Foundation and the University of Heidelberg in 2008.
New MA Programme in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
Anselmian Perfect-Being Theology and the Cognitive Science of Religion (funded by the Cognition, Religion and Theology Project at the University of Oxford; 2008-2009)
Toward a Nonphysicalist Monist Solution to the Mystery of Consciousness (with Max Velmans at Goldsmiths, University of London; funded by the John Templeton Foundation; 2009-2011)
Philosophy of Religion (the existence of God, divine attributes, the problem of evil, science and religion)
Philosophy of Mind (phenomenal consciousness, physicalism and dualism, semantic externalism)
Applied Philosophy (medical ethics, the meaning of life, death)
'God, Freedom and the Meaning of Life' (postgraduate), 'Philosophy of Mind' (postgraduate), and 'Research Skills' (postgraduate).
Yujin is willing to supervise postgraduate projects in any of his research areas. Feel free to contact him by e-mail if you would like to discuss possible postgraduate work.
Books:
God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Winner of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument (Edited with Peter Ludlow and Daniel Stoljar), Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2004.
New Waves in Philosophy of Religion (Edited with Erik Wielenberg), Palgrave Macmillan (New Waves in Philosophy Series), 2008.
Articles:
'A New Defence of Anselmian Theism', Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2008, pp. 577-596. Winner of the 2007 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize.
'A Millican on the Ontological Argument', Mind 116, 2007, pp. 1027-1040.
